Generating and Maintaining Reports > Units of Measure in Reports
  
Version 10.0.01
Units of Measure in Reports
For certain reports, an Advanced option in the scope selector enables the selection of the unit of measure—MBytes, GBytes, or TBytes.
If you notice a discrepancy in the values reported by the Portal reports versus the values you see in the backup product itself, this is likely due to the conversion of the units of measure.
When 1024 is used for calculations, it refers to binary multiples: kibibyte (KiB), mebibyte (MiB), gibigyte (GiB), tebibyte (TiB), and pebibyte (PiB). When 1000 is used for calculations, it refers to decimal multiples: kilobyte (KB), megabyte (MB), gigabyte (GB), terabyte (TB), and petabyte (PB). By default, the units for values in reports are displayed as binary multiples. This default setting can be changed by modifying a user's profile.
Detail Reports
For reports that are the results of drilling into details from a parent report, those detail reports can have their own unit of measure - separate from the parent report settings. Once you’ve drilled into a child report, you can change the measurement unit to see more accurate or easily understandable information. For example an Array and Capacity Utilization Summary report shows aggregated data in TiB.When you drill down, it may be more useful to switch to MiB.